How to Use babysit in a Sentence

babysit

verb
  • She babysits their kids on Saturday nights.
  • There’s no need to babysit your food on the stove or in the oven.
    — Elizabeth Briskin, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2022
  • That didn't leave 5–6 hours to stay home and babysit my oven.
    — Alyse Whitney, Bon Appetit, 22 Feb. 2018
  • We don't get paid to come out here and try to babysit somebody.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2021
  • We don’t get paid to come out here and try to babysit somebody.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Liza would babysit Ron, and the two struck up a friendship.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Soldiers had to figure out who would babysit their kids.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Leaders aren’t paid to babysit their inbox.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Vesbit will sometimes babysit while Roost and her son are in town.
    — oregonlive, 2 May 2022
  • Lyon would babysit the girl at the victim’s house during the week.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
  • My parents would have their friends and other soldiers babysit me.
    — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Bradbury, who would babysit for Ledford as well, said with a laugh.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2019
  • There is the statistic that grandparents who babysit tend to live longer.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 10 May 2019
  • Johns would babysit her often, and would always bring her little gifts.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2025
  • If your host has young children, offer to babysit or take the kids on an outing.
    — Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • One day the girl went to Wright’s home to babysit his children, but the kids were not there.
    — Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Read Next State Is your child old enough to babysit this summer?
    — Kendrick Marshall, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2025
  • Kyle’s the other living who can see the ghosts, who comes to babysit them every now and then.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The kid narrator gives silly tips for how to babysit a grandpa.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There’s just no way to babysit for several hours and not need to navigate the stairs.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • As the night deepened, the line to get in and the number of people to babysit only grew.
    — USA Today, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Females, for example, have been known to babysit the pups of other snakes.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2024
  • Pizza takes the longest, as cooks have to stretch the dough, top the pizza, and babysit it in that hot oven.
    — Craig Cavallo, GQ, 9 Aug. 2017
  • If a price feels off, movement just stops, and the owner is not going to babysit a slow mover for three months.
    — Joel Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Tyler shared that Meghan used to babysit the brothers once a month, taking them to the park and duck pond.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2018
  • Maybe the novel was narrated by an outsider who was hired to babysit the son and keep him out of trouble.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But just be prepared to pick your jaw up off the floor, and never trust Deborah to babysit!
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 10 May 2024
  • On the day of Savannah’s death, Greninger was supposed to babysit.
    — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Frances’s is to wait at the marina restaurant, and Ray’s is to babysit Frances.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Bobby Bones is about to be a dad — and his co-host is already offering to babysit for free.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025

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